In the summer of 2015, British artist Anish Kapoor was invited to create a temporary public artwork in the gardens of Versailles. The not quite abstract representation was admitted by Kapoor to be ‘very sexual’.
Carolyn Shapiro
Dr Carolyn Shapiro is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory at Falmouth University, where she has been teaching since 2002. She is Coordinator for the Critical Studies program for BA Illustration, and the primary theory tutor for MA Authorial Practice and MA Creative Advertising at Falmouth University. Her critical frameworks include psychoanalysis, semiotics, and deconstruction, including feminist, postcolonial and queer theory. She received a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University in 2004.
Her research considers uncanniness, incorporated bodies, queer bodies, leaky bodies, performing objects, happy performatives, mischief, and the philosophy of Jeremy Bentham. Forthcoming publications include a chapter in the Wiley Blackwell Companion Guide to Illustration on Historical and Philosophical Relations between Illustration and The Uncanny; and a chapter in Bentham and The Arts, to be published by UCL Press, about Bentham’s texts on homosexuality, religion, and the arts.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey